Lisa Leslie hits 6,000

How much of an impact has Lisa Leslie had on women's basketball? Do you really have to ask? Or do I just have to say this, "6,000 career points in the WNBA, the first one to do it". She hit an eleven foot jumper with 11.9 seconds to play in the 2nd quarter to reach this milestone. She is also the career leading rebounder with 3,214 after last night game (and yes, she technically has 6,010 after last night's game as well). I would argue she is one of the best female basketball players ever. Yes, even better then Ann Meyers and Nancy Lieberman. Lisa is the real deal, completely the real deal. If her knees could hold on any longer I'm sure she would hit 10,000 points. So CONGRATULATIONS, Lisa. The best to put on a uniform (and she has a great book too!)

On top of hitting that milestone, the Sparks beat my Fever 75-63 on Monday night. The Sparks outscored the Fever in each quarter except the 3rd quarter. For some reason it seems that Fever just could not get going despite 11 steals and causing the Sparks to turn the ball over 16 times! Tamika Catchings put in 15, Katie Douglas had 16 and rookie Briann January (who nobody is talking about but is having a great rookie year) had 10 points. But when you have Lisa Leslie scored 21 and Candace Parker hitting for 14....it is tough to keep up.

Indiana still has a nice lead in the East, still up by 5.5 games over Washington & Connecticut. The Sparks are still 1 game behind the Silver Stars, but look for them to take over the 4th place spot this week as they play the Mercury on Thursday and the Sparks play the Monarchs on Friday. By the weekend they will be tied for 4th place, I'm certain of that.

Tonight's Games
Three games tonight:
Detroit @ Washington (7:00 pm)
Sacramento @ San Antonio (8:00 pm)
New York @ Los Angeles (9:00 pm, ESPN2)

Washington, San Antonio and Los Angeles will be winners....

Notes about games tonight:
Detroit is on a 3 game road swing against Eastern Conference teams: Washington, Hot-Lanta and Indiana.
Washington is looking for a season sweep of Detroit.

San Antonio has only won back-to-back games twice this season. That plays well for Sacramento but the Monarchs have lost 5 in a row to the Silver Stars in the regular season and they have the worst record in the WNBA (ouch).

New York has lost 6 of 7 but almost beat the Storm over the weekend (losing 70-69). Shameka Christon is in a shooting slump and when the entire team is in a slump, losing your only consistent scorer hurts. Los Angeles is has the league's best scoring defense and limits their opponents to under 72.6 PPG. That doesn't work well for the Liberty who are 1-11 when scoring under 73 points.